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Influenza 1918 Program Transcript Page 1 Influenza 1918 Program Transcript William Sardo: People didn’t want to believe that they could be healthy in the morning and dead by nightfall, they didn’t want to believe that. Narrator: It was the worst epidemic this country has ever known. It killed more Americans than all the wars this century — combined. Lee Reay: It was a phantom. We didn’t know where it was. William Maxwell: In a gradual remorseless way, it kept moving closer and closer. Daniel Tonkel: You never knew from day to day who was going to be next on the death list. Dr. Shirley Fannin, Epidemiologist: There were so many people dying that you ran out of things that you’d never considered running out of before — caskets. Narrator: Before it was over, it almost broke America apart. Anna Milani: I remember my mother putting a white sheet or a white piece of cloth over his face and they closed the casket. Text: Influenza 1918 Narrator: In 1918, the United States was a vigorous young nation, leading the world into the modern age. All our fears and anxieties were directed toward Europe, where the war raged. At home, we were safe. William Maxwell was growing up in Lincoln, Illinois. Page 2 William Maxwell: In 1918, Lincoln was a town of 12,000 people. It was perhaps 50 years old, just time enough for the trees to mature so that the branches met over the sidewalks. Yards were large, the children played in clusters in the summer evenings. On Sunday morning, the church bells were pretty to hear. But my father had had enough of church-going so we went fishing on Sunday, out in the country with a picnic. It was a life not very much impinged on by the outside world. Narrator: In Macon, Georgia, Cathryn Guyler was five years old. Cathryn Guyler: My father was a playmate actually and when he’d take me out in his car, he would stop at a grocery store that he knew and take me in and the owner of the store, in his white uniform, would say to his men, “Go out and shake the candy tree, boys.” I think I must have known that candy didn’t grow on that tree, but I wouldn’t have given up the notion because he was enjoying it and I was enjoying it and everybody was enjoying it, you see. Narrator: For a young newspaper woman in Denver, Katherine Anne Porter, life was like a romantic novel. Katherine Anne Porter (actor, voice-over): I had a job on the Rocky Mountain News. The city editor put me to covering theaters. I met a boy, an army lieutenant. We were much in love. Narrator: The soldier was the darling of America. Patriotism ran unrestrained in a country newly entered in the Great War. Anna Milani: We would march up the streets singin’ “tramp, tramp, tramp the boys are marching. I spy Kaiser at the door. And we’ll get a lemon pie and we’ll squash him in his eye and there won’t be any Kaiser anymore.” Page 3 Cathryn Guyler: It was a good world, but it was an age of innocence; we really didn’t know what was ahead. Narrator: Some say it began in the spring of 1918, when soldiers at Fort Riley, Kansas, burned tons of manure. A gale kicked up. A choking dust storm swept out over the land — a stinging, stinking yellow haze. The sun went dead black in Kansas. Two days later — on March 11th, 1918 — an Army private reported to the camp hospital before breakfast. He had a fever, sore throat, headache… nothing serious. One minute later, another soldier showed up. By noon, the hospital had over a hundred cases; in a week, 500. That spring, 48 soldiers — all in the prime of life — died at Fort Riley. The cause of death was listed as pneumonia. The sickness then seemed to disappear, leaving as quickly as it had come. For over a century, the booming science of medicine had gone from one triumph to another. Researchers had developed vaccines for many diseases: smallpox, anthrax, rabies, diphtheria, meningitis. Dr. Shirley Fannin, Epidemiologist: With the great advances in microbiology we were eliminating mysteries, okay. The mystery of what causes this disease, the optimism of being able to visualize something. All we have to do is just look under the microscope and we’ll see the organism, and then take an action and see that something die off or be controlled. That leads to the thought of invincibility. Narrator: It seemed that the masters of medicine could control life and death: there was nothing that Americans couldn’t do. We could even win the war that no one could win. That summer and fall, over 1.5 million Americans crossed the Atlantic for war. But some of those doughboys came from Kansas. And they’d brought something with them: a tiny, silent companion. Almost immediately, the Kansas sickness resurfaced in Europe. American soldiers got sick. English soldiers. French. German. As it spread, the microbe mutated — day by day Page 4 becoming more and more deadly. By the time the silent traveler came back to America, it had become a relentless killer. On a rainy day in September, Dr. Victor Vaughan, acting Surgeon General of the Army, received urgent orders: proceed to a base near Boston called Camp Devens. Devens was about to change Dr. Vaughan’s world forever. Victor Vaughan, Surgeon General of the Army (actor, voice-over): I saw hundreds of young stalwart men in uniform coming into the wards of the hospital. Every bed was full, yet others crowded in. The faces wore a bluish cast; a cough brought up the blood-stained sputum. Narrator: On the day that Vaughan arrived, 63 men died at Camp Devens. An autopsy revealed lungs that were swollen, filled with fluid, and strangely blue. Doctors were stunned: what in the name of God was happening to these lungs? When the strange new disease was finally identified, it turned out to be a very old and familiar one -- influenza: the flu. But it was unlike any flu that anyone had ever seen. Dr. Alfred Crosby, author, America’s Forgotten Pandemic: One of the factors that made this so particularly frightening was that everybody had a preconception of what the flu was: it’s a miserable cold and, after a few days, you’re up and around, this was a flu that put people into bed as if they’d been hit with a two-by-four. That turned into pneumonia, that turned people blue and black and killed them. It was a flu out of some sort of a horror story. They never had dreamed that influenza could ever do anything like this to people before. Narrator: Soldiers carried the disease swiftly from one military base to the next. They did it just by breathing. Dr. Shirley Fannin, Epidemiologist: If an individual with influenza were standing in front of a room full of people coughing, each cough would carry millions of particles with disease- Page 5 causing organisms into the air. All the people breathing that air would have an opportunity to inhale a disease-causing organism. It doesn’t take very long for one case to become 10,000 cases. William Maxwell: My first intimations about the epidemic were that it was something that was happening to the troops. There didn’t seem to be any reason to think that it would ever have anything to do with us. And yet in a gradual remorseless way, it kept moving closer and closer. Narrator: For a time, life in America went on, untouched. Suffragettes demanded the vote for women. Airmail service began zooming between New York and Chicago — flying time: 10 hours, 5 minutes. On September 11th, Babe Ruth led the Boston Red Sox to victory in the World Series. But on that same day, on the sidewalks of Quincy, Massachusetts, three civilians dropped dead. Influenza was out in the world. From Boston, the disease moved down the eastern seaboard — to New York, to Philadelphia, and beyond. William Maxwell: Rumors of this alarming situation had reached this very small town of 12,000 people in the Midwest. I know that my parents were worried. I paid less attention to their words than I did to the sounds of their voices, and when they discussed it I heard anxiety. My mother was expecting a baby and so, my father and mother had no choice, to, but to take me to my father’s sister’s house where we were not comfortable. It was a dark, gloomy house. I can best suggest the quality of the house by saying, in the living room there was a framed photograph of my grandfather in his coffin. It was a very strange room, there was a vase with peacock feathers in it and my aunt didn’t know, I don’t know that anybody else in Lincoln knew that peacock feathers bring bad luck. Page 6 Daniel Tonkel: The first time that I was aware that something was amiss in our normal living was when my father told me, “son, most of the employees are sick. We don’t have anyone left to run the store. Everyone is home sick, or in the hospital sick.” And within a week or 10 days my father told me that this saleslady had passed away and another one had passed away. So, as I recall, out of the eight or 10 employees, four of them passed away and the passing away came about so quickly.
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